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According to an announcement on the www.aftermarketchips.com site, which is hosted by Italian chipmaker Italeco, four aftermarket chip firms—Chips Inc., Italeco, Printchip, and UII merged as of March 1. The brief announcement, titled “Chips Inc., Italeco, Printchip, and UII merge their knowledge and commercial structure,” states: Starting on March 1, 2016, Chips Inc., Italeco, Printchip, and UII will

It has been quite some time since we updated readers on the lawsuit that various companies owned by inventor Steven Miller filed against Static Control Components in 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. Over the last few months, both parties have been busy preparing for trial, taking

It has been a few months since we last covered the lawsuit that Industrial Engineering and Development (IED), Innovative Cartridge Technologies (ICT), Cartridge Corporation of America (CCA), American Imaging Cartridge (AIC), and Universal Imaging Holdings (UIH)—all companies owned by inventor and entrepreneur Steve Miller—brought against Static Control Components roughly one year ago (see “What’s New

When we last checked in on the lawsuit filed by various Steven Miller-owned companies, including Industrial Engineering and Development (IED), Innovative Cartridge Technologies (ICT), Cartridge Corporation of America (CCA), American Imaging Cartridge (AIC), and Universal Imaging Holdings (UIH), against third-party supplies firm Static Control Components, the plaintiffs had filed a motion asking the court to

Various third-party supply companies owned and operated by Steven Miller filed suit against Static Control Components in March, claiming breach of contract, and since then the companies have continued to squabble. (For our complete coverage of this lawsuit, see Industrial Engineering and Development et al. v. Static Control Components [2012].) Since we last wrote about

While most lawsuits involving either Static Control Components or the various companies owned by inventor Steven Miller are interesting to those following the supplies industry, put the two parties on opposite sides of the word versus and you have the recipe for instant drama. Although Static Control Components licenses some technology from the so-called Miller

In March, various companies owned by or affiliated with inventor and entrepreneur Steven Miller filed a breach-of-contract complaint against Static Control Components for failing to pay royalties due as part of a cross-licensing agreement under which Static licensed certain patented technologies from the Miller entities (see “Steven Miller Companies Face Off against Static Control Components

Static Control Components has filed its answer to the breach-of-contract lawsuit filed against it in March by Industrial Engineering and Development (IED), Innovative Cartridge Technologies (ICT), Cartridge Corporation of America (CCA), American Imaging Cartridge (AIC), and Universal Imaging Holdings (UIH), all companies owned by or affiliated with inventor and entrepreneur Steven Miller (see “Steven Miller

For some time now, there has been little mystery about the likely end of the lawsuit filed by American Imaging Cartridge, Innovative Cartridge Technologies, and Platinum Manufacturing International alleging that numerous toner cartridge remanufacturers and distributors infringed patents used in universal chipsets for Lexmark toner cartridges. The plaintiffs in this suit are all companies owned

The long list of remanufacturers and third-party supplies resellers named as defendants in a patent-infringement complaint related to the universal chipset on various third-party Lexmark toner cartridges has now been whittled down to just one. Various Steven Miller-owned companies, including American Imaging Cartridge, Innovative Cartridge Technologies, and Platinum Manufacturing International, filed this lawsuit in December